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Dayton Business Journal...
Apple claims No. 3
rank in domestic PC sales
Thursday, July 14, 2011
New reports show mobile tablets are eating into personal computer
sales, while Apple Inc. has risen to No. 3 in the U.S. in that sector.
Research firm IDC said global PC shipments rose only 2.6 percent in the
second quarter, compared to the 12 percent rise reported in the first
quarter. Research rival Gartner Inc. put the second-quarter increase in
shipments slightly lower at 2.3 percent, compared to the 6.7 percent
rise it had projected for the period.
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Both reported that Apple has passed Acer Inc. and Toshiba Corp. to
become the third-biggest PC maker in the U.S., with 10.7 percent of the
market. Gartner reported that Acer’s share dropped nearly 23 percent
from last year to 9.3 percent of this market while Toshiba edged up to
get 9.6 percent of the market.
Hewlett-Packard Co . shipments slipped a bit but the company remained
No. 1 in the U.S. with 26.9 percent of the market, according to Gartner.
Dell Inc. still claimed the No. 2 position, but its share dropped
nearly 10 percent. It still had 22.6 percent of the U.S. market.
Both reports cited the growing sales of tablets, led by the Apple iPad,
as the reason for the slowing sales of PCs, making Apple a winner on
both counts.
“Given the hype around media tablets such as the iPad, retailers were
very conservative in placing orders for PCs,” Gartner analyst Mikako
Kitagawa wrote.
Apple is facing steady pressure on the tablet front. Amazon.com Inc.
plans to sell its own tablet style computer to compete with the iPad,
according to reports this week.
Amazon will likely put the new device — with a 9-inch screen — on sale
by October. It will use the Android operating system of Apple’s rival
Google Inc.
A recent survey found that in less than a year after rolling out the
iPad, 9 percent of business owners said they were using them.
This includes companies all over the Dayton region, including a law
firm that outfits all lawyers with iPads.
Apple has a store in Kenwood and the area has two MacTown stores.
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